Book: House with mezzanine

The vocation of every human being in spiritual activity - in constant pursuit of truth and the meaning of life.

We are the superior beings, and if we're really conscious of the force of human genius and lived only for higher purposes, in the end, we could become like gods. But this will never happen - mankind will degenerate and the genius will be over.

- Tell me why you live so boring, so not colorful? I asked Belokurova, going home with him. My life is dull, heavy, monotonous, because I am an artist, I'm weird man, I izdelan from the young days envy, dissatisfaction, disbelief in his case, I'm always poor, I'm a tramp, but you, you, healthy, normal man, a landowner, a gentleman, why do you live so uninteresting, so take a little from life?

Hundreds of versts of desolate, monotonous, burnt-out steppe can't catch up with that kind of depression as one man when he sits, speaks and no one knows when he will leave.

Commonly I sat on the bottom step of the porch; I was haunted dissatisfaction, it was a pity his life, which flowed so fast and uninteresting, and I kept thinking about how nice it would be to rip out of my chest the heart that was in me so heavy. But this time on the terrace talking, heard the rustle of dresses, leafing through the book.

The hardest, hardest working, and never shy. No sympathy!

The horror of their situation is that they have no time to think about the soul, no time to remember his image and likeness; hunger, cold, animal fear, plenty of work, just snow blockages, blocked them every way to spiritual activity, to the very thing that distinguishes man from animal and is the only thing worth living for.

... all these Anna Moors, Pelagia from early morning to dusk toil, suffer from overwork, life trembled for hungry and sick children, whole life afraid of death and disease, life treated, early fade sooner grow old and die in filth and stench; their children, growing up, begin the same music and so it goes on for hundreds of years, and billions of people live worse than animals only for the sake of piece of bread, experiencing constant fear.

In my opinion, health centres, schools, libraries, first aid kits, under existing conditions, only serve to enslave. People entangled in a great chain, and you do not cut this chain, but only add new links.

People should consider themselves above the lions and tigers and stars, above everything in nature, even above what is unclear and seems to be wonderful, otherwise he is not a man but a mouse that is afraid of everything.

If people, all together, could be given to spiritual activities, they soon would find out.

To deny hospitals and schools is easier than to cure and to teach.

Is health not a miracle? And life itself? What is not clear, it is a miracle.

It is not pessimism and optimism, and that ninety-nine out of a hundred no mind.